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"what people subconciously believe" != "lot of truth" the State should not be boosting the rhetoric of what mostly amounts to a bunch of hateful losers blaming
by postflopclarity 8mo ago
"what people subconciously believe" != "lot of truth"
the State should not be boosting the rhetoric of what mostly amounts to a bunch of hateful losers blaming their problems on women.
- simianwords 8mo agowhats hateful about looksmaxxing?
- actionfromafar 8mo agoSelf-hate?
- simianwords 8mo agoself hate is not the same as self improvement
- postflopclarity 8mo agois this bad-faith naivete ? obviously, in isolation, there is nothing hateful about wanting to improve your appearance. but if you spend any time at all on these forums in which "looksmaxxing" discussions tend to occur, the hatred towards women (and other groups) is profuse and apparent.
- simianwords 8mo agocan you share some sources?
- postflopclarity 8mo agono. I'm not going to boost links to the incel pipeline. it's already easy enough to access.
- simianwords 8mo agoyou have again conflated incels vs looksmaxxing which means you are not seeing it the correct way
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- stvltvs 8mo agoThe culture surrounding it is all very cynical about women. It's also dripping with self hatred.
- simianwords 8mo agosure but i don't think its so bad that the government should refuse to use their slang. they also promote agency and self improvement as a community.
- dwroberts 8mo agoThere is a lot of physiognomy/phrenology nonsense loaded into these beliefs, which ties back to other (loaded/potentially hate-linked) pseudoscience like eugenics
- simianwords 8mo agoits literally the opposite of eugenics because looksmaxxing is about self improvment and agency. eugenics is about genetics.
- dwroberts 8mo agoThey talk about things being down to 'bad genes' all the time. I don't think you're discussing this in good faith you're just sealion'ing
- simianwords 8mo agoWhy would a forum whose main purpose is self improvement and “max” ones looks, say that things come down to genes? If it were about genes, why wouldn’t they just accept it and crib about it instead of trying to get better at it? You have absolutely no idea what this movement is about.
- sigmar 8mo ago"It's about bad genetics... That's why people in Indian aren't considered the best aesthetically.. These arranged marriages aren't allowing the best genes to prevail" - clavicular[1] I'm not sure why you'd go out on a limb to defend the guy singing songs glorifying hitler. But you do you [1] https://x.com/WyronGaines/status/1995013476289245573?s=20 https://x.com/WyronGaines/status/1995013476289245573?s=20
- DiabloD3 8mo agoLooksmaxxing is a known alt-right dog-whistle. The alt-right is obsessed with form over function combined with a grossly outdated view of masculinity circa the 1940s. Alt-right media focuses on disenfranchising younger men by convincing them vanity, narcissism, and by proximity, racism and sexism, is desirable. They are also into outdated, inherently Nazi, concepts like phrenology and physiognomy, and sometimes just openly discuss eugenics and participate in it (see Elon Musk, et al). Looksmaxxing is, essentially, about becoming a shitty person. You work on yourself, become better looking, but find that even less people want you around because of how you decided to curate your life and your personality... and instead of leaving this cult, they blame everyone else and become weaponized incels, who commit acts of violence to get even with the society that rejected them. The guy who shot Charlie Kirk was deep into this cult, for example; he followed prominent hatemongers and alt-right influencers, attempted to participate in looksmaxxing, and also posted racist and sexist things, parroting the things he heard from the influencers.